Matilda- Tuesday 21st February 2017

Today’s lesson was our Drama lesson. In today’s class I wanted to work on what costumes we should be wearing and how we should have our hair and make-up. At the start of class, we warmed up like every lesson. For our physical warm up today we done an exercise which made us think about characterisation. Someone was shouting out a certain thing such as water and we had to act that out. I feel as though this is going to help us in Matilda because it would make us think about our characterisation more and how exaggerated our movements had to be. We then done a vocal warm up which would warm up our vocal chords and we could make sure that we wouldn’t strain our voice whist singing throughout the lesson. After warming up, we split into our two dance groups so we could start rehearsing straight away. Most people in my group had brought a small part of their costume with them so they could begin to rehearse in it, unfortunately this lesson I didn’t bring mine. However, I did put my hair into two bunches to see what it would be like to have my hair hat way and to see if that would portray my character well. I think that by all of us having our hair in different rebellious ways it would make us feel more like our character and we should be able to perform better as we feel more like our character. Our group decided that we didn’t want to use the mirrors this lesson so we could get use to not using them all the time and relying on them to make sure we are all in the correct place. We rehearsed a couple of times without the mirrors and we felt as though it went well because we all have good special awareness and we all knew where we had to be. Near the end of the lesson, we ran through some of older pieces which we had done as we would be performing them to an audience the same night as “School song”. I felt as though I could see a big improvement in myself form the beginning of the school year and I have seen that I developed all lot of new skills.

My target for this lesson was to work on costume and to see what would work. I have figured out that the two bunches looked quite childish and they would be better for the younger children. My whole group decided that none of us liked the idea of bunches for the older children. We said that our hair should be more messy and scruffy. My idea was to have a side pony tail which is messy and would look more rebellious. For costumes, we have said that older children should wear all black trainers/plimsoles because again they look more rebellious and they younger children should wear smart school shoes because we think that normally all new children starting a new school always look neat and tidy and that’s wat we wanted our younger children to look like so it would portray their character well.

My target for next lesson is to keep working on the choreography and to get the final ending part completed.